"He filled out an insurance form requesting the refund of the cost of his operation." "He filled out an insurance form requesting a refund for the cost of his operation." Are both of the above sentences acceptable? If so,

Hi, once again, I'm having trouble to accurately put my thoughts into words. Some time ago, I was reading a scientific article about the possibility of life on Titan, a moon orbiting Saturn. When I tried to summarize what I had just read, the

Consider the following sentence: "The ambassador gained the trust of the soldiers when he personally attended to one of their wounded comrades". The problem with this sentence is that it implies that there was more than one wounded

For some reason, this simple problem continues to puzzle me. It's been rattling around in my head for months now. Here's another example that I find problematic. I can't decide which structure to use. Let's imagine the following

(1) We only played one ... and it was four years ago. - You need to use the PAST SIMPLE here because you're talking about something which happened 4 years ago. (2) ...between his wife and the girls' coach... - you need the apostrophe after

The first sentence is correct. The second one is not grammatically correct. TO BE (in the infinitive - so as it is in this sentence) cannot be followed by a noun (perfection is a noun). Bernice

Correct answer - check below! The other day Mrs. Dixon noticed that one of the bath-room taps was dripping . “If you see Jim , tell him to repair this tap for me , please ” she told her little son John. John told the maid . The maid told the

Below is the real-life story ofmy classmate, Susan who used to be my best friend. She always used to hand in her homework on time. Everyone thought she was a good student but unfortunately this stopped being a fact 2 years ago. One day, I saw

1. ...have promised to inform people (the people?) about the beginning of the strike... - In this case both people and the people are accepted. The use of the makes your sentence more specific since it would be directly referring to the group of